Observing Protest from a Place
The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011)
Published on 1. October 2025
272 pages
978-1-040-79618-4 (ISBN)
Description
Social movements throughout the world have been central to history, politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar, the essays explore a number of vital issues, including the methodological problems of studying international activist gatherings and how scholars can overcome those challenges. By demonstrating the importance of the global justice movement and the role of nongovernmental organizations for participants in the southern hemisphere, this volume is an important addition to the literature on community action.
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Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
11,62 MB
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978-1-040-79618-4 (9781040796184)
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Johanna Simeant | Marie-Emanuelle Pommerolle | Isabelle Sommier
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The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011)
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The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011)
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Persons
Johanna Simeant is professor of political science at the University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne (CESSP), and has published La cause des sans-papiers (1998), Le travail humanitaire (2002), La greve de la faim (2009), Contester au Mali (2014) and edited books.|Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle is assistant professor of political science at Paris 1 Sorbonne University. She is currently director of the French Institute of Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nairobi (Kenya).
Isabelle Sommier is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University, former director of the CRPS (Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne) and currently Deputy Director of the CESSP (Centre europeen de sociologie et de science politique, a fusion between CRPS and CSE Bourdieu institute). She has published on the theory of social movements, political violence, radicalization and terrorism.
Isabelle Sommier is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University, former director of the CRPS (Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne) and currently Deputy Director of the CESSP (Centre europeen de sociologie et de science politique, a fusion between CRPS and CSE Bourdieu institute). She has published on the theory of social movements, political violence, radicalization and terrorism.
Content
Acknowledgements, Introduction, What can quantitative surveys tell us about GJM activists?. Activist encounters at the World Social Forum, Mapping a population and its taste in tactics, Women's issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Division of labor and partnerships in transnational social movements, Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum, Latin Americans at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Tania Navarro Rodriguez and Heloise Nez Groups and organizations at the WSF, Stepping back from your figures to figure out more, Conclusion, Technical appendix: Surveying an international event through a multinational team, General data on participants, Appendix to Chapter 8 on groups and organizations: Clusters obtained by Ascending Hierarchical Clustering, Questionnaire for participants to the Dakar World Social Forum, Editors' Biographies, Bibliography, Index
